I have so many questions about the 1992-2005 sitcom, As Time Goes By. I realize these ought to go to the show’s writers or creators but I am instead directing them at the characters themselves. On a primal level these are the people I, a person incapable of separating fact from fiction, believe hold all the answers. And maybe they do! Maybe they’re the ones with the full backstories. My letters to each of the principle characters, after this tremendous cliffhanger of a jump:
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